wholesome
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The musical is embraced as a wholesome, earnest tale about love of one’s homeland.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The Independent gave it the same score, calling Race Across the World "a wonderful source of escapism in uneasy times" and "the most wholesome show on TV".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
But how do you solve a problem like Alan Jay Lerner’s book, written for a sensibility markedly more wholesome than our own?
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
“Taylor, who played my dad, was the more wholesome, normalized version of who my dad was,” Konkle says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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